Quotes About Mindfulness

In being slower, time is more capacious. The event is only in the moment. By speeding through life with technology, you reduce what any given moment can hold. By slowing down, you expand it.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding .when it is not ,he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding others people's business. This expresses itself in gossip ,snooping and meddling ,and also in feverish interest in communal ,national and racial affairs . In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

The only time I can get the thoughts to stop is when I get lost in something very creative and puzzle-like—and then I only get lost briefly. This way of life is exhausting

One of the main lessons of Zen is that we ordinarily see the world through a haze of preconceptions and fixed ideas that proceed from our desires. To achieve enlightenment, we must follow the Zen teaching not merely to let go of desire and attachment, but to experience reality exactly as it is—without the preconceptions and the fixed ideas getting in the way. This

I discovered the secret of writing - live in the present moment. Do not fantasize about possible response because you cannot know the future.

Mi-am dat imediat seama c? veniseÅŸi. Åži c?-mi dezv?luiai secretul, marele t?u secret: priveÅŸte lumea în fiecare zi ca ÅŸi cum ai vedea-o pentru întâia oar?.

Il faut du bruit pour entendre le silence .

La lenteur, c'est ça le secret du bonheur.

Yo habré trabajado mucho toda la vida, pero he trabajado despacio, tomándome todo el tiempo del mundo. No buscaba hacer números o ver desfilar clientes, no. Ir despacio, ése es el secreto de la felicidad.

Ne pense plus avec ta conscience personnelle, pense avec une autre conscience, celle du monde, pense tel l'arbre qui bourgeonne, telle la pluie qui tombe.

J'aurais travailler lentement, en prenant bien mon temps, je ne voulais pas faire du chiffre, ou voir défiler les clients, non. La lenteur, c'est ça, le secret du bonheur.

Kindness needs greater effort than dark thinking.

On occupe sa jeunesse à se préparer à vivre, sa vieillesse à se souvenir d'avoir vécu. Ce faisant, on rate le présent qui seul existe en tombant dans deux pièges, celui de l'avenir qui n'existe pas, celui du passé qui n'existe plus.

Happiness isn't about hiding from suffering, but about integrating it into the fabric of our existence.

You do many things at once; you read, listen to the radio, talk, smoke, eat, drink. You are the consumer with the open mouth, eager and ready to swallow everything—pictures, liquor, knowledge. This lack of concentration is clearly shown in our difficulty in being alone with ourselves. To sit still, without talking, smoking, reading, drinking, is impossible for most people. They become nervous and fidgety, and must do something with their mouth or their hands.

To be fully awake is the condition for not being bored, or being boring—and indeed, not to be bored or boring is one of the main conditions for loving. To be active in thought, feeling, with one's eyes and ears, throughout the day, to avoid inner laziness, be it in the form of being receptive, hoarding, or plain wasting one's time, is an indispensable condition for the practice of the art of loving.

The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

Lack of concentration makes one tired, while concentration wakes one up.

looking for the next thing to do or the newest gadget to use is only a means of protecting oneself from being close to oneself or to another person.

Buddhist concept of mindfulness means precisely a way of being in which one is fully concentrated on everything one is doing at any given moment, whether it is planting a seed or cleaning a room or eating. Or as a Zen master has said: "When I sleep I sleep, when I eat I eat …" 10.

all of us are more or less insane, or more or less asleep

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

Meditation is like sobriety in that it doesn't make everything perfect but helps us be okay with how everything is.